Neither, Nor
I am neither tongue nor tribe
I am neither colour nor skin
I am a soul, being
in the here and now hereinafter
I am neither race nor sex
I am neither age nor name
for human knows no gender
soul knows not age
I am neither attire nor diploma
I am neither class nor income
I am more than these
I am
I am neither stereotype nor profile
for a soul can neither be caged nor set free
I am without boundary and limit
I am
Yewande Adebowale is a Nigerian Lawyer, Storyteller, Poet and Author of two collections of Poems titled ‘A tale of being, of green and of ing..’ (2019) and Voices: A collection of poems that tell stories’ (2016). Her poems have appeared in Visual Verse, Afritondo, Trampset, Poemify, Pride Magazine and elsewhere. Her works carve a niche of poetic storytelling assuming a prose like form of creative expression inspired by her African roots. Winner of the Fidelity Bank prize for creative writing and The Guardian Newspaper poetry prize, her works are inspired by the realities of life and living, in poetic and philosophical fashion. She lives in and writes from the city of Lagos, Nigeria.